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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE) - **Company:** Discogs - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Github, Java Database Connectivity, Python (Programming Language), Memcached, MySQL, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, SQLAlchemy, Datadog, Scripting, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Fastapi, Amazon Relational Database Service, Debezium, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Sentry, Hashicorp, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Data Management, Virtual Agents, Cloud Optimization, Restful APIs, Terraform - **Published:** July 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e5a924459fc3278a ## About the Role Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack): * Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) * CI/CD (GitHub Actions) * Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests) * AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3) * FinOps and cloud cost optimization * Observability (Datadog, Sentry) * Agentic AI (Claude Code) * Scripting (Shell, Python) * Track record of collaboration and mentorship * Excellent written communication and documentation skills * Continuous learning * Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems Preferred: * Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC) * Flink * Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS) * Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance) * Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI) * GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation) * REST API * GitOps (ArgoCD) * Hashicorp Vault * Redis * Memcached Education & Experience: * A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience. * 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles. ## Description The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team's centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes. Location While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL, What You'll Accomplish Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. * Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout * Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools * Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS * Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC) * Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas * Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness * Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization's knowledge base * Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools * Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment * Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues * Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows * Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety ## Related Videos - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [From Doubt to Confidence: How Sentry Uses Verdaccio to Bulletproof SDK Releases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/739-from-doubt-to-confidence-how-sentry-uses-verdaccio-to-bulletproof-sdk-releases) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Coding for Good: Achieving social change with an app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1645-coding-for-good-achieving-social-change-with-an-app) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Best Job Search Websites of 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/368-the-best-job-search-websites-of-2025) - [Best Job Boards for Remote Work for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/290-best-job-boards-for-remote-work-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)